Phil and Sonya Thomas to continue the fight of his local school system. As you wait for the procedure to begin, they feel the issue could have been avoided if your child's teacher would have listened. Now the issue has escalated to this. With his lawyer at his side, parents see as the principal defends the teacher: it was justified in labeling your child. Experts school system also support the teacher. Sonya Thomas is striving to redefine itself. "I do not care what the experts say. It is not fair to classify school our son. Only you will be looking abroad." She breaks. "Why can not accept that our child is not white? Is a black American." The room was quiet.U.S. dilemma
As many voters turn their attention to the presidential election, the media continues to remind us of the race. With a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, Barak Obama, we are concerned with racial origin. Some people see it as "too black" while others say it is just "not black enough." Individuals with a mixed heritage betray our hidden beliefs and sometimes our prejudices. For example, rapper Kanye West in 2006 told Essence Magazine, "If not for race mixing, there would be no video girls." Growing up in Louisiana, who lived with one drop rule. The one drop rule holds that individuals with some degree of African descent can not be white. In fact, it makes the person 100% black. In this narrow view, regardless of the race of the child's mother is determined black.
